Bill W

Euclid mentioned parallel and perpendicular lines over 2,000 years ago, but never formulated a complete description of the term. That didn't happen until the 17th century when Rene Descartes came up with the idea of Cartesian Coordinates, which is used to locate a point in space by giving its relative distance from perpendicular intersecting lines.

Late Gothic architecture in England from the 14th to 17th centuries was based solely on perpendicular lines and angles. This style was unique to England, because no comparable style can be found in Continental Europe or anywhere else in the British Isles.

From the Latin perpendicularis, which is from perpendiculum (plumb line). which in turn came from per (through) and pendere (to hang). It then came through Old French and was picked up by Late Middle English (in the 1500s) as an adverb meaning "at right angles".

Quote: Squares have four perpendicular angles contained within them. Thank you, Kermit, for this valuable lesson.

Thanks, Chris, and I hope it lives up to everyone's expectations.

of course you aren't. lol

Thank you for the feedback. Yes, the adventure is about to begin and what they'll discover is left to be seen. Yes, it was good that the boys researched about red wolves as well. The boys didn't mess around sexually with anyone at college, but they enjoy the sexual activities with Rory and Jaxon. The boys only started doing these things with Rory land Jaxon was to give them an education, because the Fitzpatrick boys wanted to learn if guys or girls give better oral sex. Since they'd already experienced it with girls, they turned to Devin and Mac to see if guys did it better. When they found out they did, they seemed to be hooked and wanted to do it whenever they could. And when they're at the Fitzpatrick's house, they also like to swim in their pool, but they sometimes also play other games with both sets of parents. I hope this answers all of your questions.

Thank you for sharing that link, George. I found it very interesting.

Yep, just like the rest of us - well, at least me.

I remember being on a commercial flight when I was in the service and someone loudly said, "Hi, Jack," to someone else of the flight. The stewardess quickly told him to keep his voice down, because making a comment like that if he was just joking around could get him kicked off the flight and in big trouble.

Yes, that foursome made a fast and long-lasting bond. And you're right, so fasten your seatbelts and we'll rely on Captain Jack for a safe trip. hehehe

Thanks for posting this. That's a real throwback and it might be difficult to pick Billy Joel out of a lineup today if they were using that picture. .

Good, you've been paying attention. lol

I believe we all are hoping no one gets hurt. And if you're ever taking a commercial flight with a pilot named Jack, or you have a friend on the flight named Jack, please don't say "Hi, Jack." Commercial flights have a different and troublesome reaction to hearing hijack.

I'm not sure if it's written down anywhere, but in this story whenever they transition into an animal they immediately have the scent from that animal. There may be some minor differences, but for the most part they could be explained by a brief contact with a human or something the human owned. It would be so minor that most animals wouldn't pay it much heed. I hope that answers your question.

Hmmm, interesting questions and I hope I've got the answer for them. It's hard to believe that so much could go wrong on this treasure hunting trip.

Chapter 17 – Summer Vacation Begins After we discovered that we’d been invited to join the Fitzpatricks for a cookout, Devin stayed downstairs to call his dad to let him know he was planning to spend an extra day with us. He also confirmed that his parents were going to join us for the Fourth of July celebration, and once that had been taken care of, Devin came up to my room as I was getting ready to leave. Since Devin’s swimsuit was packed with his other belongings in the SUV, I of

When I was younger, there were still inkwells in some of the desks at the elementary school I went to. We were told they used to hold the ink bottles for the dip pens the students used when practicing their cursive handwriting. By the time my class was being taught cursive handwriting, we would use fountain pens for that purpose and would refill the reservoir in the fountain pen from the ink bottles. That way we could write for a long time without having to keep dipping the tip of the pens into the ink bottle.

The word marjoram came from the Medieval Latin word morjorana to the Old French Majorane. It then became marjoram in late Middle English.

It has been pointed out the former President George W. Bush once claimed that "Texas has a lot of electrical votes."

Shakespeare used them as well. He had the character Benvolio intentionally tell Juliet "that the nurse was going to indite Romeo to dinner".

The character Archie Bunker from All in the Family was famous, or infamous, for them as well. He once said, "It's a well-known fact that capital punishment is a detergent to crime!"

@Myr's example was "The divorce left him with zilch." All I have to say to that is, been there, done that.

My research came up with a different origin. First of all, Zilch is a German surname of Slavic origin. The usage became popular in the 1960s due to a comic character, Mr. Zilch, in the magazine Ballyhoo.

Windlass comes from the Old Norse word 'vinda' (to wind) + 'ass' (a pole or beam). The latter part is similar to the Gothic word 'ans' (a pole or pillar). The word windlass was brought into Middle English as an alteration of the Anglo-Norman French word windas around 1400.